Taxonomic Group |
Kingdom Animalia Phylum Brachiopoda Class Lingulata Order Acrotretida |
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Fossil Name | Orthisocrania divaricata (McCoy), 1851 |
Type Status | Paratype |
Name History | Orthisocrania divaricata (McCoy), 1851 Crania divaricata McCoy Pseudocrania divaricata McCoy: Paratype Pseudocrania divaricata McCoy |
Registration No. | A 41949 |
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Collector | Name not available |
Donor or Associated Person | Name not available |
Held By | Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge |
Comments | part and counterpart : (parts a-b) |
Country | Wales |
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Locality | Bryn Melyn Quarry, Bryn Melyn, Bala, Merionethshire, Wales |
Grid Reference | Not available |
Rock Unit | Schists (on Bala Limestone) |
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Biozone | Not available |
Geological Age |
Ashgill Series (Ordovician Period) – Caradoc Series (Ordovician Period) (443.8 – 458.4 Ma B.P.) [Closest ICS interval: Late Ordovician Epoch ] |
References | McCoy 1851 c. Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. (2) vol. viii (1): p.388 McCoy 1852 a. A synopsis of the classification of the British Palaeozoic rocks with a systematic description of the British Palaeozoic fossils Palaeontographical Society Monographs (2): pp.187, 354 McCoy 1854 a. Contributions to British Palaeontology (1): p.210 Salter 1873. Catalogue of the Cambrian and Silurian fossils contained in the Geological Museum of the University of Cambridge (3): p.55 as a.152 |
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